States Of Consciousness Quotes - Page 2

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men, Discovery, Consciousness

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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

Annie Besant

Butterfly, Men, Snakes

Annie Besant (2016). “Death and After?”, p.15, BookRix

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The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Patanjali

Yoga, Different, Consciousness

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God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

George Harrison

Names, Realization, Consciousness

"The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.

Aberjhani

Peace, Volunteer, Political

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.12, Lulu.com

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Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

Deepak Chopra

Powerful, Meditation, Way

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I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

Eckhart Tolle

Optimistic, Humanity, Different

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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual, Believe, Philosophical

"A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

Roy Davis

Experience, Consciousness, States

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serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

John Daido Loori

Mean, Vanity, Illumination

John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.

Frederick Lenz

Powerful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?

Daniel Pinchbeck

Death, Sleep, Unity

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From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with us an attained state of consciousness; and while we are here, we are expanding that consciousness. From some perspectives, it may seem that we are making giant strides, but from the greater overview, our quantity of spiritual knowledge is smaller than Ptolemy's knowledge of astronomy!

John Templeton

Spiritual, Perspective, Important

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Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

Culture, Stories, Belief

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The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

Dream, Yoga, Sleep

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Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

Riane Eisler

Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

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Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

Thinking, Names, People

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In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Focus, Mind

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Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Darkness, Humanity

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Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Understanding, Drug

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Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.

Debbie Ford

Dream, Women, Reality

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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Ernest Dimnet

Book, Landscape, Consciousness

"The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 122, 1928.

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In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence of the head is brought into contact with the seat of the intelligence of the heart, which is called the mind. Thus one passes from the individualistic state of consciousness to the universal state of consciousness. It is the merging of the intellect of the brain with the intellect of the soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Heart, Eye, Light

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Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.

Graham Hancock

People, Our Society, Society Today

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The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Jenny Offill

Buddhist, Moving, Suffering

Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

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